The New Soviet fiction: sixteen short stories

Introduction / Sergei Zalygin

Pushkin's photograph (1799-2099) / Andrei Bitov

Auto accident in Paris / Elchin

No smiles / I. Grekova

The sleeper / Valentin Kataev

Cat-strangler silver / Viktor Konetsky

Antileader / Vladimir Makanin

A question mark and an exclamation point / Revaz Mishveladze

The art of needles and sins / Bulat Okudzhava

Through the fields / Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

What should I tell the crow / Valentin Rasputin

The devil's wheel in Kobuleti / Mikhail Roshchin

Stepanida Ivanovna's funeral / Vladimir Soloukhin

Fire and dust / Tatyana Tolstaya

Love in Mustamägi / Arvo Valton

The details of Nikita Vorontsov's life / S. Yaroslavtsev

Prose / Sergei Zalygin.